What We Do
An ICJS 20th Anniversary Event The Institute for
When Those We Love
Christian & Jewish Studies
in cooperation with the
Alzheimer's Association of Maryland
Become Strangers
Medicine and Religion Confront Alzheimer's Disease
Presenters:
Marilyn Albert, Ph.D.
Karen Kauffman, Ph.D., R.N.
Respondents:
Rosann M. Catalano, Ph.D.
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman
ICJS Jewish Scholar/Consultant
Thursday, December 7, 2006
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
7401 Park Heights Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21208Registration Fee: $10.00 per person
For More Information
Please call 410-523-7227, Ext. 10This public program, offered by the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies (ICJS), will address one of today's most confounding medical, social, and religious challenges. Alzheimer's disease not only affects the patient with a progressive loss of physical and mental functioning, but also places a severe strain on relationships with family, friends, and communtity.
During the course of the evening, our speakers will examine:
- The nature and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
- Areas of most promising research
- Personal and communal resources available to patients and families
- Distinctive insights that Judaism and Christianity offer for living with this affliction.
Marilyn Albert, Ph.D. is a nationally renowned speaker on Alzheimer's disease, Director of the Division of Cogni-tive Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. She is the co-author of Keep Your Brain Young, a book for the general public about normal aging changes and age-related diseases of the brain.
Karen Kauffman, Ph.D., R.N. is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She serves as the interim Assistant Dean for Graduate Education and the Program Director of Community/Public Health Nursing. She is Co-Investigator on an NIH/NIA funded grant: Translating Dementia Care Research: Nutrition (5 R44 AG019996). She is also a director on the boards of the Alzheimer's Association, Greater Maryland Chapter, and of the National Alzheimer's Association, and sits on the Public Policy Committee.
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